Kenneth Turan Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg recensie, review en informatie biografie van de Amerikaanse filmproducenten. Op 4 february 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Jewish Lives een nieuwe biografie van de joodse filmproducenten Louis B. Mayer en Irving Thalberg. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.
Kenneth Turan Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg recensie, review en informatie
- “Mr. Turan has provided an entertaining primer on the men and their studio. … Sharply observant.” (Farran Smith Nehme, Wall Street Journal)
- “A record of a paradigm-shifting partnership, this is an entertaining, literate and beautifully crafted contribution to Hollywood history.” (Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times)
Louis B. Mayer and Irvine Thalberg
The Whole Equation
- Auteur: Kenneth Turan (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Reeks: Jewish Lives
- Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
- Omvang: 392 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 30,00
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de biografie van filmproducenten Louis B. Mayer en Irving Thalberg
Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.
One was a tough junkman’s son, the other a cosseted mama’s boy, but they dreamed the same mighty dream: that the right movies could make a profit and change both the culture and individual lives. Sharing a religion and an evangelical zeal for film, Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899–1936) were unlikely partners in one of the most significant collaborations in movie history. Over the course of their decade-long relationship, as key players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and major players in Hollywood, they joined forces in redefining and mastering the template for the film industry.
Mayer, older by more than a dozen years, was the business-minded face of the studio, while Thalberg worked closely with the creative corps, especially writers; together they rarely set a foot wrong. And while Mayer initially viewed Thalberg as the son he never had, the two would go from passionate friends to near enemies before Thalberg’s shocking death at the age of thirty-seven.
In the first joint biography of the two men in fifty years, film critic Kenneth Turan traces their fraught relationship while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood.
Kenneth Turan was the film critic of the Los Angeles Times for nearly thirty years and was also a film critic for National Public Radio. He is the author of Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film, among other books. He lives in Los Angeles, California.